Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
In America, we have equated personal business success with public virtue. — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of… — Bhartrhari Copy Share Image
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue. — Francis Arinze Copy Share Image
I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Gratitude is not a fair weather virtue. True gratitude means appreciating your life no matter what the storms may bring. Is simply… — Mac Anderson Copy Share Image
Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“When you are truly aligned with virtue, there is no sense of arrogance, righteousness, or superiority. When you are truly aligned with… — Chin-Ning Chu Copy Share Image
Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters,… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
To be good Christians you have to contemplate the suffering humanity of Jesus. "How can we bear witness? Contemplate Jesus. How can… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Citizens ... should be practitioners of civic virtue in their conduct toward government. They should be ever willing to fulfill the duties… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“A virtue is a habit that includes all of these things: actions (you take care of your child even when you don't… — Phillip Cary Copy Share Image
Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
Few, as I have said, are the humorists who can induce this state. To master and dissolve us, to give us the… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I shall possess this woman; I shall steal her from the husband who profanes her: I will even dare ravish her from… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. — Francoise Mallet-Joris Copy Share Image
